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Speaker 1: They say, the hardest thing in sports isn't winning a title.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to repeat seasons.

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Speaker 1: It's winning it again this Yearning is.

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Speaker 2: Not trying to win a championship, They're trying to repeat.

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Speaker 1: It's October baseball for your world champion in La Dodger.

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Speaker 3: The twenty twenty five Dodgers are the National League's Western

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Speaker 1: And you know what that means.

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Speaker 4: Saxon Kates and AM is back.

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Speaker 1: This is Saxon Kates in the Morning with Tim Kates

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Speaker 1: and former World champion Dodger Steve Sacks.

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Speaker 5: Reacting, taking your phone calls, talking Dodgers playoff baseball all

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Speaker 5: postseason long.

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Speaker 1: Now Here they are on AM five to seventy LA

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Speaker 4: Steve Sacks, Tim Kads, Tim.

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Speaker 1: Kates and World Champion Dodger Steve Sacks.

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Speaker 4: Ah Our three of Saxon Kates and.

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Speaker 5: Am liman local here on your home of the Dodgers,

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Speaker 5: Thanks for being with us as you make your way

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Speaker 5: throughout southern California. Coming up at the bottom of the hour,

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Speaker 5: Kurt Suzuki, new Angels manager, will join us we'll get

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Speaker 5: his thoughts on this World Series matchup again. If you

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Speaker 5: missed Derek Carr Last Hour, Joe Davis in the first hour,

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Speaker 5: you get podcast it on the I Heart Radio app.

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Speaker 5: A lot of donut talk last Hour with all the

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Speaker 4: It's what you get when you have six.

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Speaker 5: Days in between the NLCS and the World Series. But Saxy,

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Speaker 5: we have a pleasure now to be joined by a

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Speaker 5: guy who's spent fifteen years in the big leagues. He's

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Speaker 5: been on both sides of this World Series matchup. He

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Speaker 5: was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays at a test

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Speaker 5: in high school. Go Tillers played in Toronto for many years.

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Speaker 5: It was an All Star there, a Gold Glove winner there,

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Speaker 5: Dodgers for five years, off to Arizona and New York.

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Speaker 5: He had hit over two eighty in his career, two

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Speaker 5: thousand hits, over three hundred home runs, over one thousand

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Speaker 5: Sean Green, and he joins us here on AM FI

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Speaker 5: seventy l A Sports with Tim Kates and Steve Sacks.

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Speaker 4: Sewan, thanks for doing this. Good morning, how you doing.

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Speaker 6: Good morning, Hey you guys. Everything's good here. Great to

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Speaker 5: Well, we appreciate you coming on this morning. The Blue

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Speaker 6: Sean, Yeah, I'm looking forward to. I mean, Dodds are

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Speaker 6: pretty slim and not for the Dodgers to get there.

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Speaker 6: But the Blue Jays, you know, have tough division for

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Speaker 7: Sean. Great to be with you this morning and love

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Speaker 7: man some unbelievable numbers. I'm here on Baseball Reference looking

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Speaker 7: What an amazing career that you had. But I wanted

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Speaker 7: Is this that massive of an advantage for the Dodgers

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Speaker 6: Well, you know, you know how it is. I think

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Speaker 5: We've seen what la is like when the Dodgers are

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Speaker 5: You were a young Sean Green in nineteen ninety three

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Speaker 7: You know, Sean, when you look at these two teams,

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Speaker 7: He's that type of player. He had a big year

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Speaker 7: Maybe this is something that gives them some hope besides

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Speaker 6: definitely not. I know they're not taking them lightly, but

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Speaker 5: LA Sports. Tim Kates, Steve Sacks. You're on your home

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Speaker 5: tomorrow night. Sean, you hit four home runs in a

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's crazy that every year he does something that

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Speaker 7: Hey, Sean, I wanted to ask you about, you know,

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Speaker 7: six and seven? Uh in Roger Center? Is is it

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Speaker 6: I am my attitude on it in baseball is did

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Speaker 5: Sean, we appreciate you coming on this morning. You played

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Speaker 5: Well, Sean, we appreciate you popping on this morning. Really

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Speaker 7: Thanks Sean.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, pleasure. Can't wait to watch this, no doubt, no doubt.

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Speaker 5: There he goes, the great Sean Green here on a

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Speaker 4: Coming up the bottom of the hour, we're.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 7: Also, also real quick for this call, does Tim Mortons

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I don't.

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Speaker 5: look it up. Lawrence in Valencia. Welcome to saxon K today.

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Speaker 5: Am I doing Lawrence?

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Speaker 8: Very good? Tim one team. I want to share with you. First,

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Speaker 8: you could get Tim Horton's from Buffalo, New York.

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Speaker 5: Ah, okay, we for you. Yeah, okay, that's that's uh,

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Speaker 7: Yeah, but it's two hundred miles closer.

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Speaker 4: So Yeah, what's going on, Lawrence? What do you want

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Speaker 8: Steve? You were my favorite Dodger during the eighty eight season.

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Speaker 7: Oh thank you, Lawrence, Thank you Hey, Well.

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Speaker 8: Because you were you were always on the go, you

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Speaker 7: Awesome. Well and nothing, thank you, Lawreden. Like a donut

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Speaker 4: Nothing like having your psychologists right, uh, going.

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Speaker 7: On donuts and cigarettes. He's talking with you.

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Speaker 5: The Breakfast the Champions, The Breakfast Up Champions. Bill and

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Speaker 8: How you doing there?

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Speaker 6: Bill? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Thanks Tim, Steve, I appreciate it. Listen, I just just

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Speaker 6: You know? Is it?

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Speaker 8: Am I out of my mind?

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Speaker 4: Or what a little bit there Bill on that?

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Speaker 5: But I will tell you every game of the World

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Speaker 5: every game is at five o'clock. So games three to

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Speaker 5: good news. Scott in Ontario's next up with Saxon Kates

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Speaker 5: and the Am.

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Speaker 2: How you doing Scott, Hey, good morning, guys. I just

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Speaker 2: talk about Tanner Scott. I don't know if you guys

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Speaker 2: You know, I like Tanner Scott, but he's just having

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Speaker 2: It's not it's a risk we don't need to be taking. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 7: Okay, go ahead.

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Speaker 2: A big fan of the Dodgers. I've been watching him

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Speaker 2: Saxy's not idle, but who who do he? Who is

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Speaker 8: Or who do he.

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Speaker 5: It's a good question. Thank you, Scott, appreciate it. Saxy,

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Speaker 5: Who who is the guy you looked up to?

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Speaker 7: Well, I you know, I hate to say it right now,

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Speaker 5: Not as bad as Bush Stadium, three rivers and Vet

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Speaker 7: You're cookie Cutters. Yeah, no doubt.

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Speaker 5: We'll come back. And when we do, we're gonna hear

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Speaker 5: Steve Sacks a pleasure to Ada.

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Speaker 4: Welcome in.

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Speaker 5: A former All American at cal State fullerts In he

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Speaker 5: had the baby, the game winning hit for the Titans

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Speaker 5: zero four to help the Titans tusk up to win

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Speaker 5: a College Baseball World Series championship. Sixteen years in the

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Speaker 5: big leagues and all Star, a World Series champion, and

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Speaker 5: now the skipper, the manager of the Angels. He is

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Speaker 5: Kurt Suzuki and he joins us here on a FI

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Speaker 5: seventy LA Sports with Tim Kats and Steve says, Kurt,

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Speaker 5: good morning, How.

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Speaker 9: You doing, good man?

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Speaker 10: How are you guys?

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Speaker 5: Do it fantastic? D not as good as you? Here

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Speaker 5: you are now the manager of the Angels. What a

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Speaker 5: while the last couple of days, I imagine it's been.

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Speaker 5: How did this all come together for you as an

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Speaker 5: advisor with the Angels the last couple of years you

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Speaker 5: only retired just a few years ago, and now here

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Speaker 5: you are as a manager.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, it's definitely been a whirlwind.

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Speaker 10: What an amazing opportunity, you know, Arty and Karl moreno,

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Speaker 10: like big thanks to them, John Carpino for believing in

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Speaker 10: me and giving me this opportunity, opportunity to leave this organization.

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Speaker 10: I couldn't be more excited. I've been in the front

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Speaker 10: office for the last three years, played by last two

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Speaker 10: years of my career in Anaheim. I understand the organization,

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Speaker 10: obviously working closely with Perry the last few years, seeing

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Speaker 10: the talent that we have coming, and very positive, positive

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Speaker 10: thoughts going forward with what we can accomplish with these

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Speaker 10: young players coming up. It's very exciting to me and

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Speaker 10: I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 7: Kurk, congratulations on being named the manager. Very very happy

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Speaker 7: for you. I think they made a great choice and

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Speaker 7: always been a big fan of you and watching you play,

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Speaker 7: and I just wanted to, you know, tell you that

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Speaker 7: this last year I joined the athletics broadcasting team and

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Speaker 7: watching you know and playing or watching them play against

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Speaker 7: the Angels. You guys got some good talent coming up.

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Speaker 7: Like you mentioned, we know that you know, one of

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Speaker 7: the areas that you want to improve on is the pitching.

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Speaker 7: Of course, that's something that they've been at issue for

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Speaker 7: quite a while. But I'll tell you what your shortstop

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Speaker 7: is A phenomenal player that's going to get lots of headlines,

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Speaker 7: and that's Zach Nato. This guy is amazing. Can you

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Speaker 7: kind of elaborate a little bit on him, what's coming

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Speaker 7: up and what's going to be the issue as far

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Speaker 7: as the pitching goes.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, Zach is a very exciting player. Obviously

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Speaker 10: being able to watch him closely the last few years,

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Speaker 10: I mean, this guy is talented as anybody in the

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Speaker 10: big League that his position. The kid works hard, he's

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Speaker 10: got the right mentality, and I'm very excited for him.

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Speaker 9: Obviously.

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Speaker 10: You know, being a young kid, I didn't spend much

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Speaker 10: time in the minor league. You know, he's still growing,

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Speaker 10: he's still improving as a player, as a person, he's maturing.

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Speaker 10: But with his future, man, I mean, this kid is

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Speaker 10: as talented as any shortstop, like I said, I've seen,

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Speaker 10: and I'm very excited to work with him on a

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Speaker 10: daily basis and to help guide him to what we

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Speaker 10: feel his potential can take him to and help us

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Speaker 10: win games. Now on the pitching side, obviously, that's I

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Speaker 10: wasn't a pitcher, but being a catcher, that's that's something

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Speaker 10: that I take a lot of pride in That's something

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Speaker 10: that I really I really focus on because I always

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Speaker 10: feel like the pitching, the catching, those two positions really

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Speaker 10: it really sets the tone of the game, you know.

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Speaker 10: Uh and and I just I just really want to

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Speaker 10: be a part of these young pitchers. I played with

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Speaker 10: a few of them, I got to see them closely.

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Speaker 10: And we definitely have some young talent coming up the

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Speaker 10: last you know, four drafts of Perry as obviously everybody

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Speaker 10: knows this. Everybody's talking about it has been emphasized on pitching.

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Speaker 9: And we do have some coming and.

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Speaker 10: Our job as coaches trickles down to the minor league

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Speaker 10: coaches is to get these kids ready to contribute to

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Speaker 10: the major league level as soon as we can. And

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Speaker 10: we feel that these kids are close and when they're

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Speaker 10: up here, we want them to be able to contribute

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Speaker 10: for a long long time.

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Speaker 5: Kurt, is there a little bit of pressure to speed

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Speaker 5: up the clock maybe on some of these young arms

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Speaker 5: to get them to the major league level so you

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Speaker 5: can start that winning immediately, so you can start that

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Speaker 5: process of putting together these young guys and getting them

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Speaker 5: experience to go along with a lot of these young

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Speaker 5: guys like Logan, ll Hoppy and zach Neto that that

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Speaker 5: Saxy mentioned to get this nucleus going.

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Speaker 10: You know, I don't think there's pressure. I think there's

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Speaker 10: definitely excitement for these young kids. And like I don't

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Speaker 10: know if it's a safe word of staying it, but

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Speaker 10: they're going to develop how fast they develop, right And

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Speaker 10: it's our job as coaches to help these kids develop,

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Speaker 10: not necessarily faster, but help them develop at the right

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Speaker 10: pace for themselves so when they come up they can

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Speaker 10: contribute right away. This is a hard game. This game

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Speaker 10: is very hard, and it gets harder the higher levels

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Speaker 10: you go and the game speeds up. So we want

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Speaker 10: these kids ready to go so when they get the

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Speaker 10: Major to the Major League, they're they're contributing, you know.

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Speaker 10: And you know, in this game, sometimes you're forced to

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Speaker 10: rush guys up and sometimes you're not. But at the

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Speaker 10: same time, the kids that we have, they're so talented

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Speaker 10: and they're matured beyond their years. And like I said,

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Speaker 10: I'm so excited with the kids that we got in.

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Speaker 10: Perry has done a phenomenal job. I feel like just

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Speaker 10: acquiring talent. Perry's got such a great eye you know

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Speaker 10: for talent. He's been around the game so long he

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Speaker 10: relates to these guys, he understands them, and I think

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Speaker 10: that's a big, big help for us.

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Speaker 7: Kurt, I want to ask you, and you would be

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Speaker 7: a great guy to ask this question. I asked my

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Speaker 7: brother this because he was a catcher in the big

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Speaker 7: leagues too. But the issue of going down on one

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Speaker 7: knee supposedly to give the umpire a better view of

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Speaker 7: the low ball, blah blah blah blah blah. But but

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Speaker 7: you have the abs coming next year. Are are are

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Speaker 7: we going to see the end of the one knee?

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Speaker 7: I mean the ability to shift over to your right

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Speaker 7: if you're on your right knee. I mean, you just

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Speaker 7: look at it, and you just wonder how these guys

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Speaker 7: can get over there. They have to backhand the ball

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Speaker 7: like a shortstop. When do we see the shifting really

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Speaker 7: come back? It's really inhibited. I think if they're on

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Speaker 7: one knee, maybe you can explain this more and why

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Speaker 7: this is an advantage. Sho be on the knee if

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Speaker 7: you can't go over there and block the ball.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, I think that's a very interesting question.

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Speaker 10: I always felt like, you know, when I came.

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Speaker 9: Up to the big league.

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Speaker 10: You know, it's a little bit more traditional, but I

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Speaker 10: feel like this game is evolving so much, you know,

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Speaker 10: throughout the years and every year it's evolving, right, And

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Speaker 10: I believe that's the beauty of this game. The beauty

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Speaker 10: of each position has their their specific I guess, technique, tendencies,

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Speaker 10: whatever you want to call it. And the catching position

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Speaker 10: being around the catching position my whole career and now

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Speaker 10: working closely with it, you know, as the game has evolved,

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Speaker 10: I think it's exciting. I don't know if there's one

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Speaker 10: specific way. I think the big thing is the catcher

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Speaker 10: is gonna dictate what he can and can't do. And

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Speaker 10: I always felt like the catcher will dictate how his

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Speaker 10: body moves, what positions that he needs to be in

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Speaker 10: to be successful. And as coaches, it's our jobs to

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Speaker 10: analyze what positions are going to make these catchers successful.

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Speaker 10: There's no one right or wrong way. You've seen guys

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Speaker 10: be successful doing it all types of different ways. It's

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Speaker 10: just a matter of the coaching staff myself, the analysts

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Speaker 10: pinpointing which positions makes them successful and puts them in

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Speaker 10: the best spot to help the team. And I think

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Speaker 10: that's what we're going to do as the staff. You know,

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Speaker 10: the ABS is definitely something that's coming in and we're

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Speaker 10: gonna have to evolve through it, and we're gonna have

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Speaker 10: to evolve with it. And like I always said, if

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Speaker 10: you don't evolve with the game, it'll pass you by,

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Speaker 10: and that's not what we want to happen.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Colonel's watching the MLB Network and Yonder Alonzo and

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Speaker 5: Sean Casey were glowing about the hire of you with

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Speaker 5: the Angels and just couldn't say no good things about

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Speaker 5: you as a player and as a guy that controlled

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Speaker 5: the game behind the plate. And it got me thinking again,

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Speaker 5: another catcher managing in the big leagues. It's it's something

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Speaker 5: we see a lot of. Why Why are catchers such

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Speaker 5: great managers in the in the professional level?

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Speaker 10: Well, I see I feel like we see the game

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Speaker 10: through a different lens, you know, not taking away other

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Speaker 10: positions obviously, because there's a lot of talented players that

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Speaker 10: that can manage and have the ability to do that

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Speaker 10: as well, but I feel like being a catcher seeing

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Speaker 10: the game, you have to think along with the game, right,

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Speaker 10: You have to. You have to understand potentially what thirty

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Speaker 10: pitchers you go through through a whole season, Understanding each personality,

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Speaker 10: know what makes them pick, what makes them doesn't, Understanding

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Speaker 10: what the opposing team is trying to do. Are they

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Speaker 10: going to pinch it in a couple of hitters? You

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Speaker 10: know who are we getting up in the bullpen? Maybe

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Speaker 10: I pitch around, There's there's all these things that come

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Speaker 10: into play, and I was very much so.

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Speaker 9: In love with that part of the game. As a catcher.

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Speaker 10: I love to think about, you know what the other

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Speaker 10: coach is doing. Can I be a step ahead?

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Speaker 9: What is a hitter thinking?

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Speaker 10: Can I be a step of the hitter? And all

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Speaker 10: that type of stuff to go along with being a

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Speaker 10: hitter in the big leagues also and understanding that part

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Speaker 10: of the game and just kind of just kind of

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Speaker 10: seeing the game through that lens. I feel like gives

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Speaker 10: the catcher a little bit of a head start advantage,

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Speaker 10: whatever you want to call it. But then also relating

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Speaker 10: to the players, you know, you have all these different

655
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Speaker 10: pictures with different personalities, and it's your job, I believe

656
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Speaker 10: as a catcher to know what makes them tick and

657
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Speaker 10: to get the best out of them on each and

658
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Speaker 10: every night. And I think that's one of my strengths

659
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Speaker 10: and that's what I believe will help.

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Speaker 9: Me this year.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, agreed, one hundred percent. Kurt Catcher's toughest job, most

662
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Speaker 7: important job on the field, an extension of the dugout,

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Speaker 7: I believe, and that's why you're a perfect guy to uh,

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Speaker 7: to lead this team. I wanted to ask Kurt as well,

665
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Speaker 7: your philosophy, your style, You're gonna implement some of the

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Speaker 7: some of the small ball as well. I think, you know,

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Speaker 7: we see some of that coming back a little bit,

668
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Speaker 7: some of the speed game. Or is it going to

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Speaker 7: be futuristic maybe looking for the bomb all the time?

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Speaker 7: Or are we going to see a combination of those two.

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Speaker 10: Well, I think first off, I love watching the three

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Speaker 10: run homer. Don't get me wrong. I mean I didn't

673
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Speaker 10: really hope many of those that didn't hit many of

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Speaker 10: those three run homers, But I love watching them when

675
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Speaker 10: they're on, when they're good for my team. But but

676
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Speaker 10: I think that's a great question because this game, like

677
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Speaker 10: we talked about the evolution of the game, right, the

678
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Speaker 10: analytics that come into play, I feel like it's it's

679
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Speaker 10: very good information to help kids get better. And at

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Speaker 10: the same time, I think the game will dictate what

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Speaker 10: we do as a team.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 10: The personnel that we have on our roster will dictate

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Speaker 10: what we do as a team, and our job at

685
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Speaker 10: the end of the day is to score more runs

686
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Speaker 10: than the other teams. However we have to do that.

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Speaker 9: I want our kids to be ready, so.

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Speaker 10: It's not foreign if we put on a sign. It's

689
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Speaker 10: not like I haven't done that in three years.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 10: We want these kids to understand that our job is

692
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Speaker 10: to manufacture runs. We can't just rely on one part

693
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Speaker 10: of the game. We can't only bud, we can only

694
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Speaker 10: hit and run, we can only try for the homer.

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Speaker 10: We have to be a well rounded team. Now going

696
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Speaker 10: to saying that you have to have the right personnel

697
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Speaker 10: for each and like again, it's our job as coaches

698
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Speaker 10: to pinpoint and put these players in the best positions to.

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Speaker 9: Succeed as we can, because at the end of.

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Speaker 10: The day, that's our job, that's our goal. If these

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Speaker 10: kids are in the best spot that we feel to succeed,

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Speaker 10: it's going to be good for the team and the

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Speaker 10: staff that we end up going with. I feel like

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Speaker 10: will be very prepared each and every night to do

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Speaker 10: that for these kids.

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Speaker 4: Kurt, we appreciate the time final thing real quick.

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Speaker 5: This world series starts tomorrow all night in Toronto in

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Speaker 5: a loud Rogers Center. It's gonna be a great match

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Speaker 5: up with this Dodger team. Their their talent, they're pitching

710
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Speaker 5: coming in has been dominant. And you've got a Toronto

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Speaker 5: Blue Jays team that's ryan high right now, back in

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Speaker 5: the World Series for the first time since nineteen ninety three.

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Speaker 4: Are you excited to watch this? What are your thoughts

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Speaker 4: about this World Series?

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Speaker 10: It's gonna be a great one.

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Speaker 9: Man.

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Speaker 10: It is tough playing at the Rogers Center, I tell

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Speaker 10: you that much. And it is tough playing at Dodger Stadium.

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Speaker 10: And you got two great teams with great offensive, great pitching,

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Speaker 10: great coaching.

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Speaker 9: This is this is what you want.

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Speaker 10: You want two of the best teams in Major League

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Speaker 10: Baseball playing to win the World Series. And I feel

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Speaker 10: like this is a great matchup. You know, there's obviously

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Speaker 10: strengths and weaknesses on both sides, but I think it's

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Speaker 10: gonna be a great series and I'm looking forward to it,

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Speaker 10: no doubt.

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Speaker 7: You know, I wanted to ask you one more if

729
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Speaker 7: I may hurt your outfield with with Warden, you know

730
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Speaker 7: how he can swing the bat, but how about Joe Adell.

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Speaker 7: The last couple of years, he's really he started to

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Speaker 7: ascend into you know something that's a pretty darn good

733
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Speaker 7: overall player. Have we seen the ceiling with him yet?

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Speaker 7: I mean he's twenty six years old, but man, he

735
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Speaker 7: had a bang up year last year with thirty seven jacks.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, he's He's one of the most physically gifted kids

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Speaker 10: that I've seen in the game. He can do it all.

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Speaker 10: And I'm excited for Joe. You know, he had a

739
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Speaker 10: great year last year. I was so happy for him.

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Speaker 10: The guy works hard. He's a great teammate, and he

741
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Speaker 10: wants to win and he wants to be the best

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Speaker 10: version of Jodell for the team that he can.

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Speaker 9: And like I said, I'm super excited.

744
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Speaker 10: To see Joe evolve as a player, continuing to evolve

745
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Speaker 10: as a player and just keep getting better and better

746
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Speaker 10: because I hate putting ceilings on kids because you just

747
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 10: never know, right in this game, you never know what

748
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:53,879
Speaker 10: can happen, you never know what can click, and at

749
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Speaker 10: any given moment, like you don't know if this is

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Speaker 10: the best Jodel we've ever seen or if he's going

751
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Speaker 10: to get better. And I think that's the fighting and

752
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Speaker 10: the beauty of this game is the amount of work

753
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 10: these kids put in, the effort, the energy that they

754
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Speaker 10: bring every single day. You just want to see them

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Speaker 10: keep growing. And I'm excited for Joe and looking forward

756
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Speaker 10: to it.

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Speaker 5: Well, we're excited for you, Kurt. Thanks for joining us

758
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Speaker 5: this morning, both big fans of yours as a player

759
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 5: and now rooting for you as a manager with the Angels.

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Speaker 5: Thanks for doing this this morning. Really appreciate it, all right.

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Speaker 9: Thanks for having me on you guys, appreciate it all right.

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Speaker 5: There he goes the great Kurt Suzuki, now manager of

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Speaker 5: the Anaheim Ange to that team. Yeah, no doubt. Sixteen

764
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Speaker 5: years in the big leagues, former catcher. I mean, he says,

765
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Speaker 5: it's tough to go into Dodger stadium play. But I'll

766
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Speaker 5: tell you what, I hope he doesn't take it personal,

767
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Speaker 5: but Dodger fans not happy with him in that twenty

768
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Speaker 5: nineteen Washington Nationals team that went in and eliminated the

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Speaker 5: Dodgers in the NLDS Now they went on and won

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Speaker 5: the World Series that year.

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Speaker 7: And congratulates his job.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, don't expect to be celebrated when you go

773
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Speaker 5: back to Dodger Staates. Dodger fans still remember that heartbreak

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Speaker 5: in twenty nineteen. So show, Saxy.

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Speaker 7: Man, We've had We've had a lot of star power

776
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Speaker 7: on here. You, you, you and I not being part

777
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Speaker 7: of it. No, exactly, it's all downhill. After today, we'll

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Speaker 7: come back. We'll get more of your phone calls. I'll

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Speaker 7: put a boat on today's show. Zuki Joe Davis, Oh

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Speaker 7: star studed an affair for three hours.

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Speaker 4: You missed any of it?

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Speaker 5: Podcasted on the iHeartRadio app. Saxon Kates in the Am.

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Speaker 5: We'll come back and put a ball on today's show.

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Speaker 5: Getting ready for tomorrow as we are getting closer and

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Speaker 5: closer to Game one, all the World Series, Dodgers and

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Speaker 5: Blue Jays, all the action right here of course on

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Speaker 5: a FFI seventy I Sport. Wrapping things up here on

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Speaker 5: this Thursday edition is Saxon Kates in the Am on

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Speaker 5: a FI seventy LA Sports. We'll be back at it

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Speaker 5: tomorrow six am. Brian Early, Getting ready for Game one

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Speaker 5: of donut talk this morning, love it, a lot of

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Speaker 5: World Series talk, love it, and a lot of great

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Speaker 5: chatter with Derek Carr, who was fantastic to talk baseball.

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Speaker 5: See what an NFL quarterback was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 5: And you see it a lot the crossover. I mean

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Speaker 5: you talk about it as a baseball player, the love

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Speaker 5: for football. The football players talk about it. They love baseball,

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Speaker 5: they love basketball. You guys have a lot of respect

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Speaker 5: for each other.

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Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, there's no doubt about it. I mean, what

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Speaker 7: they go through as a football player, the amount of

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Speaker 7: collisions and physical torture that these guys take is unbelievable.

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Speaker 7: And then you ask a football player and you say,

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Speaker 7: how do you guys go through the grind of one

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Speaker 7: sixty two? So yeah, there's there's mutual respect on both sides,

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Speaker 7: no doubt.

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Speaker 5: And uh, it's gonna be cool to see Derek out

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Speaker 5: there for Game four by the way, he say he's

817
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Speaker 5: gonna be out there next week and Game four is

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Speaker 5: lining up for show. Hey Otani, wow to be on

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Speaker 5: the mound.

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Speaker 7: For the You know, it's a lot about baseball, you

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Speaker 7: can tell.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he's dropping Andy pai Haz knowledge to

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Speaker 5: ask her Hernandez knowledge.

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Speaker 7: Like the arm of Pajes. He mentioned that he mentioned

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Speaker 7: not just the obvious of when guys swing the bat,

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Speaker 7: but the defensive part. So he's he's got to figure out.

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Speaker 7: I wanted to ask him a question, how much do

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Speaker 7: you have to sell the the handoff when you do

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Speaker 7: in play action to bring those linebackers up to bite

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Speaker 7: a little bit so the deep so the tight ends

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Speaker 7: and the wide receivers can get behind the linebackers and

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Speaker 7: in front of the safeties and you can drop that

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Speaker 7: pass and they're, like he did four thousand times, used

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Speaker 7: to watch you do. I wanted to kind of asking

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Speaker 7: those intricate questions, but you know, time is of the essence.

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Speaker 5: I think Aaron Rodgers Brett Farv come to mind as

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Speaker 5: two guys who were really good and some Peyton Manning

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Speaker 5: really good and selling that handoff to the running back

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Speaker 5: in the boom, play action over the top to the

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Speaker 5: tight end in the middle of the field. Those those

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Speaker 5: are the guys that really come to mind that we're

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Speaker 5: really good at selling that.

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Speaker 7: So yeah, but Derek Carr was great at it too,

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Speaker 7: and he was just such an overall great quarterback. I

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Speaker 7: like the fact that he put it on the line.

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Speaker 7: He could throw the ball deep with anybody.

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Speaker 5: John in Santa Parina, you got about thirty seconds, John,

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Speaker 5: what's going on?

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Speaker 7: What do you want to say?

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Speaker 11: All Right? As a Canadian Dodger fan who's lived in

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Speaker 11: southern California for nine years, I have a unique perspective

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Speaker 11: on this World Series, very very excited. Blue Jays are

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Speaker 11: my second favorite team, but this is as far as

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Speaker 11: that support goes. Definitely Dodgers all the way from here

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Speaker 11: on out, and as far as Tim Horton's the move

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Speaker 11: is breakfast sandwich on a bagel and then chase it

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Speaker 11: with an apple fritter.

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Speaker 5: Wow, that sounds awesome, but at the same time sounds

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Speaker 5: like I need to take my prilo sec after that.

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Speaker 5: It sounds really really like it's gonna just cause me damage.

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Speaker 7: That would be tough. I think.

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Speaker 5: How about how about these donuts that they cut open

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Speaker 5: and they put like fruit in there, or they'll put

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Speaker 5: like you mentioned, I mean you talked about they put

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Speaker 5: wimp cream in the ones. Do you like it that

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Speaker 5: u Ben's bakery there, Baker Ben's baker pans excuse me,

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Speaker 5: baker bend.

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Speaker 7: That's right, go ahead.

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Speaker 5: But you know, little fruit, there's a spot down here

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Speaker 5: in the in the ie that you get a nice, nice,

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Speaker 5: nice warm donut, you slice it in half and you

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Speaker 5: put some strawberries in.

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Speaker 7: There, some peach. That's good.

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Speaker 6: That's good.

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Speaker 7: That sounds really natural. It's fruit. Just don't don't don't

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Speaker 7: implement all that phoney stuff like you're gonna throw syrup

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Speaker 7: and bacon on there, and what the heck? It's a donut. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 7: a donut. Let's not overset.

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Speaker 4: It be a donut absolutely sexy. What a great morning. Uh,

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Speaker 4: let's do it again tomorrow, shall we?

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Speaker 6: Why don't we?

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Speaker 7: It's Friday.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, We'll be back at it bright and early. Thanks

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Speaker 5: to Zach, thanks to Michelle, Thanks to all you for listening.

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Speaker 5: Make sure you podcast to show if you missed any

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Speaker 5: of the last three hours and all the great interviews.

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Speaker 5: We're back at it tomorrow. We'll have all the great interviews. Damn,

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Speaker 5: we're back at it tomorrow. Sol, everybody